I'm not a drama god

Two figures, one in black and one in red, remained silent in the gray realm.

Chen Ling looked at Liu Qingyan in front of him, a complicated expression flashing in his eyes... For him, it seemed like only yesterday that he last saw Liu Qingyan, but for Liu Qingyan, it had been more than three hundred years since they last met.

At this moment, Liu Qingyan was no longer the slightly naive girl she once was. She was taller and more mature than before. Her eyes revealed a composure and depth honed by the years, and in a daze, she even bore a resemblance to the previous Gray King.

Over three hundred years, she seemed to have changed a lot, but what remained unchanged was that black dress like starry gauze and the image of Chen Ling reflected in her eyes.

Chen Ling knew that Liu Qingyan had arrived the moment she stepped out of the prison of the mortal world.

But she didn't appear immediately. Instead, she silently followed behind, concealing herself in the void. Watching the figure in the opera robe reappear after more than three hundred years, tears streamed down her face...

She had intended to wait until she had calmed down a bit, at least until she was no longer crying, before appearing before Chen Ling again... After more than three hundred years apart, she didn't want to see Chen Ling crying again.

She is now the Grey Queen of the Twilight Society; she can no longer be so childish.

But to everyone's surprise... Chen Ling still called out her name.

"Liu Qingyan..."

Chen Ling looked at the woman in the black dress with tears streaming down her face and said softly, "You've had a tough time all these years."

Chen Ling could imagine that, from the moment the world was restarted until now, Liu Qingyan, like the other eight gentlemen, must have been waiting for her.

With him gone, the entire burden of the Twilight Society fell on Liu Qingyan's shoulders. It's hard to imagine how this young woman, with her limited experience and strength, managed to live through more than three hundred years alone while he was away...

When he returned after more than three hundred years, the first person to appear before him was still Liu Qingyan.

Liu Qingyan's eyes reddened, and she shook her head without hesitation:

"It's not hard..."

"It's all I should do."

Chen Ling helped her up from the ground. The latter looked up and met Chen Ling's gaze once more, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes... But after a long pause, she tentatively asked:

"Lord Red King... will you... leave again?"

Chen Ling was stunned for a moment.

“No,” he answered firmly. “These past three hundred years have been an accident… Now that I’ve returned, I won’t leave again.”

Liu Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Has everything gone smoothly these past years?"

"...It's alright." Liu Qingyan calmed herself down and said in a reasonable manner.

"At this point in time, most of the original Twilight Society members have not yet matured, so formal recruitment of members has not yet begun... However, for the past three hundred years, I have been planting spies in various prisons and setting up hidden intelligence outposts. Currently, there are about three hundred non-official personnel. In terms of intelligence penetration alone, we have far surpassed the control that the Chengtian Realm has over the various prisons."

"However, there is still a gap between our intelligence network and that of the Fifth Generation World Twilight Society..."

Liu Qingyan pursed her lips slightly and lowered her head with a hint of guilt:

"After Ying Fu took control of the major realms, he began to vigorously promote the 'fixed household registration system.' Every person in every prison in every realm had to have their identity recorded regularly. Moreover, he strictly controlled the realm trains, and every person who rode the train had to be checked in detail... Therefore, it was very difficult to expand the intelligence network."

"If I hadn't laid out an intelligence network and planted spies in various bases more than three hundred years ago, ahead of him, we probably wouldn't even be able to achieve one-tenth of the scale we have now..."

"In short, the intelligence network we have now is the limit of what I have been able to achieve over the years."

Chen Ling looked at Liu Qingyan with some surprise.

Chen Ling had anticipated Ying Fu's methods; after all, he was the legendary emperor of all time, and this was one of his strengths... But he hadn't expected that Liu Qingyan would be able to establish such a vast intelligence network right under Ying Fu's nose.

Even if the current intelligence network is not as good as the fifth generation world, you have to know that this time it is a hellish start.

To have achieved this much, Liu Qingyan is already quite remarkable.

“Following Ying Fu’s approach, wouldn’t our Twilight Society members, who haven’t even matured yet, already be under the supervision of the Chengtian Realm?” Chen Ling frowned. “In that case, it will probably be quite difficult to recruit them into the Twilight Society in the future…”

"Rest assured, Your Majesty, I have made preparations in advance," Liu Qingyan replied with a smile.

“Except for a few individual members, I had already located the family locations of the other members several years ago through my intelligence network. Before they were even born, there was an intelligence team of at least five people secretly serving them…”

“From the moment they were born, the information registered with the Chengtian Realm was secretly altered by us. We can make them disappear from the Chengtian Realm’s sight at any time if we want.”

Liu Qingyan's preemptive planning impressed Chen Ling even more. It's no easy task to trace the origins of so many members of the Twilight Society back to their birthdates and pinpoint their locations...

Moreover, she also had to ensure that she could deceive the Chengtian Realm at all times. Liu Qingyan's plan can be said to have laid the foundation for the future development of the Twilight Society.

"Except for a few members... what do you mean?"

Liu Qingyan was silent for a moment before answering truthfully, "The trajectory of this world's development is different from the previous one. Some members in this world... may never have been born at all."

Chen Ling paused for a moment, then nodded slightly.

The shift in the timeline will inevitably trigger a series of chain reactions. Some people from the previous world will not be born here at all, and many more people who did not exist in the previous world will appear in this world.

"By the way, since you set up an intelligence network in all the bases in advance... how much do you know about the nuclear attack on the Red Dust Base back then?" Chen Ling seemed to remember something.

Liu Qingyan's expression immediately turned serious.

"I do know about this."

"Furthermore, in the world of the Fifth Generation, my master and I actually investigated what happened back then. We used to think that it was Wuji Jun Lou Yu who caused the nuclear attack on the Red Dust Base, but after my investigation this time, we found that the truth was not so..."

"The organization that attacked the Red Dust Base is a witch god sect that existed before the Great Cataclysm. They came from overseas. Back then, when the Gray Dimensions converged and the calamity struck Earth, they also infiltrated our base along with the overseas refugees..."

"They call themselves the Alchemy Society."